Sentences with phrase «better than medicine»

The Diabetes Prevention Program, funded by the National Institutes of Health, found way back in 2002 that improved diet and exercise was better than medicine, in this case, metformin, at preventing pre-diabetics from becoming diabetics.

Many advocates of natural remedies view grapefruit as better than medicine because of all the health benefits it provides.

Thrombectomy combined with the clot - busting medicine was no better than medicine alone if the procedure was performed more than about seven hours after stroke symptoms began.

It is quite disengenuous to claim that you weren't implying that these professions are in some way better than medicine.

«Exercise is medicine» is the slogan for ACSM's public health campaign to teach people the importance of living an active lifestyle «Exercise is better than medicine» would also be a good slogan!

Why take it so serious, just for a laugh after more than 45 mins of heart pounding, is better than medicine.

But prevention is better than medicine — and sometimes a little extra knowledge of the industry can save you.

Not exact matches

When Spreng read a Journal of General Internal Medicine study on elder abuse in New York that found more than half of financial exploitation is carried out by a person the victim knew, he wondered: Just how well are older adults navigating the complexities of their social environment?

«If you have to miss a night or two, then you can try and fake yourself some energy, but consistent quality sleep is better than trying to fake it,» Shelby Harris, director of behavioral sleep medicine at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, told Quartz.

In Uganda — and since last year in Kenya — more than 1,000 Living Goods «community health promoters» in bright blue T - shirts make their rounds through urban communities and rural neighborhoods, peddling an assortment of malaria medicine, fortified cereals, vitamins and soap, as well as larger items such as cookstoves, solar lanterns and bednets.

Good modern healthcare coverage, plus traditional and herbal medicine, natural foods, including abundant fresh fruits and vegetables and a more active lifestyle, help many expats feel healthier than they have in years.

Good modern healthcare coverage, plus traditional and herbal medicine, natural foods, including abundant fresh fruits and vegetables — you can grow your own, thanks to the fertile soil — and a more active lifestyle (it never gets cold, so you can exercise outdoors year - round) combine to help many expats feel healthier than they have in years.

Through the City of Houston Department of Health, Americares donated wheelchairs, walkers as well as medicine to the George R. Brown Convention Center mega shelter, where more than 10,000 people sought refuge.

Through the City of Houston Department of Health, Americares donated wheelchairs, walkers as well as medicine to the city's mega-shelters, including the George R. Brown Convention Center, where more than 10,000 people sought refuge.

The shipment contained more than 3 tons of urgently needed medical aid for patients with storm - related illnesses and injuries, as well as chronic disease medicine to replace medications lost in the storm.

@Ben What is your basis for concluding that people in the fields of math, medicine, and engineering are «better educated» than those who pursue liberal arts?

We must, therefore, retain a little more confidence in American medicine than this book alone is likely to produce in us, but, so long as we keep that in mind, White Coat, Black Hat should force us to ask some hard questions about how best to structure the practice of medicine.

There are 65 thousand kinds of medicine to cure 65 thousand diseases in this world, how would one know that one medicine is better than the other?

Facing a life of chronic illness I made a conscious decision to take responsibility for my body and my illness; rather than waiting and expecting doctors and their medicine to pick me up and make me feel better, I instead began to look at things that I could do myself to help my body to heal and live the best life that it can.

The Saturday Good Food Festival will be a family - friendly event with great programming that includes the Chefs at Play demo stage, a Good Food Is Good Medicine track, the DIY - oriented Organic Valley Good Food Commons, and more than 150 exhibitor - vendors in the Good Food Marketplace.

It was while cooking in France, using clarified butter liberally, that he learned that ghee was good for more than medicine.

They also know more medicine than the Arsenal medical staff, and can defend better than Per.

There is no other better medicine than trying out natural ways of staying fit.

Another common saying that makes me roll my eyes — «laughter is the best medicine» — is proving to be truer now than ever.

Women were quite capable of birthing babies, and do so with better outcomes, than what modern medicine was offering.

According to research presented at the 2011 Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports Medicine, consuming protein before lifting weights enhanced recovery better than consuming a protein drink afterwards.

Some kids need to take more than one ADHD medicine to get the best result.

Honey helps to soothe coughs in children, sometimes even better than commercial cough medicines.

According to research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Sprst Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, June 1 - 5, 2010, cyclists and triathletes who consumed 60 to 80 grams carbohydrate per hour (240 - 320 calories / h) performed better than those who consumed 10 - 50 or 90 - 120 grams of carbohydrate per hour.

According to Dr. Cheryl Cipriani, an associate professor of pediatrics at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Scott & White hospital, as people have gotten better at identifying causes of death, some deaths that once were simply unexplained might now be attributed to accidental suffocation or strangulation rather than SIDS.

Dr. William Sears, a practicing pediatrician and clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, as well as the bestselling author of more than 20 child - care titles including «The Baby Book,» has been one of the most vocal critics of «Babywise.»

Numerous studies have shown that babies and toddlers given cold and cough medicines don't have fewer side effects or feel better any quicker than children who don't receive any.

Actually, I'd say that the description fits medicine better than any other field.

A much better outcome than having to fight with them to get their medicine, and then leaving them upset and overwhelmed.

If laughter is the best medicine, look no further than this sweet blog to lighten up even your most stressful parenting moments.

A study recently published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise shows that coconut water replenishes body fluids as well as a sports drink and better than water, but athletes preferred the taste of sports drinks.

Then, as medicine imploded... err, I mean «evolved»... the right of women to have control of their birth began to be stripped away to what we have today which is not good for ANYBODY (other than perhaps a billfold or two).

The Buffalo Billion is working it really is working better than I think anyone could have anticipated we want to take the next step and local the genomic medicine center in western New York.

«The more manufacturers, the better chance of more effective medicine that people may want than what is currently on the market,» he said.

I'm not convinced that Clarke should be Chancellor again (Philip Hammond, the already powerful Chief Secretary, may be a good candidate) but there is a strong case for somebody other than George Osborne dishing out the very unpleasant medicine and then retiring from the position midway through the next Parliament.

«Our hypothesis was that women who received acupuncture with clomiphene would do much better than women who received only active acupuncture or only clomiphene, but we found that acupuncture added very little,» said Richard S. Legro, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Penn State College of Medicine.

People with an uncommon form of cystic fibrosis started gaining weight and were better able to breathe than their untreated counterparts after just two weeks on an experimental drug, according to a study published November 2 in The New England Journal of Medicine.

«So if you came from engineering to this problem and we're working at these interfaces of biology, medicine, and so forth, it's best to stay on the engineering side... rather than to... start way below and go all the way up on biology or medicine.»

A single scan could diagnose the cause of foot pain better and with less radiation exposure to the patient than other methods, according to a study in the March 2015 issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.

Psychiatry suffers in comparison with other areas of medicine, as diseases of the mind are on the whole less well understood than those of...

«This study looked at more than 2.3 million ED visits among children with asthma, and we identified some interesting trends that give a baseline to find better ways to help children with asthma control this very treatable disease,» said Aparna Roy, MD, MPH, lead author of the study and resident at UH Rainbow and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Until this trial came out we didn't know if it was going to be clinically better or not and now we know it is better,» said lead author Keipp Talbot, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, who served as coordinating investigator for the more than 100 study sites.

To maximize the likelihood of a good perinatal outcome, the American Society of Reproductive Medicine recommendations suggesting transfer of a single embryo in women younger than 35 years should be considered.

«It's a good plan,» says Christopher Plowe, a malaria specialist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore and one of more than 100 scientists WHO consulted during the inception of GPARC.

«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year and the rise of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and a professor of pathology, molecular microbiology, and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.